On the heels of The Late George Apley, the novel for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1939, John P. Marquand turned his gently satiric gaze on his own profession-the writing life-in this delectable portrait of a stagnant yet distinguished literary family in early 20th-century Boston. Jim is the only member of the extended Brill family at Wickford Point ever to have any money in his pocket. The rest of the Brills siphon gas from his car and overdraw their accounts with the cheerful abandon of those who have always been taken care of. In New England the Brills are cultural and literary royalty with an intellectual lineage that hasn't so much been inherited by the younger generation as it has fed an attenuated languor. The Brills are content to live off the implications of their name alone. And even as Jim laughs at his eccentric cousins, he cannot help being drawn back to Wickford Point, home to a gentle northern air that fills him with an inexorable sadness, but a place to which, ultimately, he belongs.
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January 1981 : Hardback
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January 1980 : Leather Bound
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June 1979 : Hardback
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1975 : Hardback
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1966 : Hardback
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January 1961 : Hardback
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1958 : Hardback
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1940 : Hardback
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January 1939 : Hardback
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September 2011 : Paperback
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March 2007 : Paperback
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August 2004 : Paperback
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September 1994 : Paperback
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1982 : Paperback
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January 1980 : Paperback
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1980 : Paperback
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January 1969 : Paperback
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January 1966 : Paperback
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January 1963 : Paperback
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1960 : Mass Market Paperback
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1958 : Mass Market Paperback
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1939 : Paperback
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1939 : Paperback
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1944 : Unknown
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